How To Encode Videos for YouTube And Get Good Quality. (Windows XP)

[TheSammyLV]

it woks on vista or 7 if you get movie maker 2.6 which is the xp one

[BillyLo1995]

Only in Xp working ???

[soildman595]

thats what i do and on vista. the setting would be just default my video camera is not very good quality so it still is rubbish but i use wax. 2.0 to edit and the file size is monster- ish so i use movie maker to lower the size so the uploading would be faster

[ThePoster100]

Thank you!

[TK42138]

Brilliantly clear explanation.

[TheFilmMaster]

This really helps me!! I use Adobe Premiere Elements 4.

Thanks Rick!!

[1415w]

Lookup Windows Media Profile Editor - it's from MS, free, and can halve that filesize :-)

It's an add-on for Movie Maker.

[MicheleMidnight]

cool info and saved to favs for future use!

[chrisw443]

i use the same kina camera and compress the same. and my videos are always good in quality =) great tutorial

[Pyroanarchist16]

you said you film with a ccd camera. what form do you use to upload the footage to your computer? i own a hi8 ccd handycam and i have to upload my footage with a usb capture device.

[HamsterPyro]

lol, mb = megabytes

kb = kilobytes, half a megabyte lol

[ngvgnDOTcom]

Thanks Rick.

[PearTreePictures]

most video editing software will let you save to you tube without doing anything extra

[ELIPTIS]

Hi mate.

I shoot HD and have tried this in HD and it does not work when it comes to importing it into Movie Maker. Might be worth using a pop up saying for non HD users ONLY mate.

[ELIPTIS]

Hi mate.

I shoot HD and have tried this in HD and it does not work when it comes to importing it into Movie Maker. Might be worth using a pop up saying for non HD users ONLY mate.

[mathew8009]

great video, very helpful

[guideons]

Thank you to share your video editing workflow. Great video as always. Keep doing it well.

Rob.

[finddestiny]

Interesting to see how you went about encoding. Will try the idea out, but instead of wmm for the second encode, I'll try Adobe Encoder CS4 to encode as H.264. Happy to see a tutorial from you Rick. :D

[johnny102marvin]

Thanks for the info. I need to get back to video editing. I have been so busy with food storage that I have put video on the back burner.

[tacticalnudge]

i use a uncompressed AVI file then convert that to a .divx file with the divx converter (not free but useful) Do you know if your camera is shooting Interlaced footage or progressive? or do you not find an issue with playback?

[RichcoMedia]

Great video Rick. I love your tutorials and have learned a lot from watching them.

[midnight121dotcom]

Rick, that was very helpful...thanks.

[niallswand]

Hoorah, a video tutorial! :)

I just use Animoto and sell them off as my own...

[EasyTutorials101]

Very helpful, thanks Rick! :D I use Camstudio, and then compress it via Window Movie Maker too, but I usually choose the Large video one, since it looks fairly good. But I'm trying this! The original footage was saved as 1080p, so let's hope it looks nice! :D

Its currently saving.

Oh, and the footage is of a game, so if it works out well, to those who use WMM to compress video game footage, try it!

[goldenedge]

Nice job Rick, one detail though: to be as professional as possible you should pick 48kHz rather than 44.1kHz.

48kHz/16bits is the standard for deliverable digital video.

44.1kHz/16bits would be the standard for music, CD's for that matter.

[TheAverageEuropean]

Try Format Factory, it's great piece of software, it's free and it can do a lot. As Mark says, try Avi Xvid setting, it offers great sound quality and reduces the file size in a significant way.

[TheAverageEuropean]

Those transcribe subs are really cool 8-))

And thanks for usefull video.

Joe

[TheGearsKeepTurning]

I use a 1080p HD camcorder.

Edit and export with iMovie.

It seems to work alright...

[WASDsweden]

XP forever :)

[nkey01]

Thank you, very helpful.

[GettingThereGreen]

Hey Rick! Great video.

Our camera is a 1080p HD camera that we use. It saves files as .MTS. We first have to convert the files first. So we convert them direct from .MTS to .WMV using a DOS script.

Once we've completed that we move all the files into Movie Maker and do all our editing in there. Simple. We use Windows Vista and WMM gives option to export to 1080p, 720p, etc... found that 1080p squishes our videos on YT so outputting as 720p and it fills the YT player box nicely.

[TheMusicMark]

Cool, how to video rick!!! I'll have to try that if I get some new video editing software.

I've just watched the video with youtube captions and it was funny to see how wrong they were.

[FenderGibsonWashburn]

Thank you for the ideas Rick. I use Linux but the setting and procedures are helpful. I look forward to other people's comments as well.

I use Audacity to clean up the audio from my RCA digital voice recorder. (volume, compression, noise removal)

I edit the video from my Creative Vado pocket video camera "non HD :-( " with Kdenlive and render it by selecting (You Tube 640x480) Video Mp4, Audio 128k 44100. I'm still hoping to find different settings for better results.

[FilmCrab]

Interesting - Maybe try encrypting in Xvid,

it's about 1/4 that size.

I'd be interested to do both and compare quality tho. 10 minutes in 720p/30 is about 50mb in Xvid.

[TheAverageEuropean]

Yes, that's great format for audio. I'm using Format Factory, it's free and simple way to reduce the size of the video.

Joe

[djtowo]

try to use wmv hd720p default settings: great quality great compression

[myownworldfilms]

thanx rick! will be very helpful for some ideas i got in my mind...

cheers

[emotionsmusic]

great advice...what I do is:

my cam (digicam - no camcorder) records in 1280x720 px at 30 fps. once I'm done with editing I export everything as MOV (1280x720 px, square pixels, 30 fps, jpeg stills) which gives me a file of 200-300 MB. Then I take this file and convert it to FLV using the NNC Video Converter (superb tool). Once this is complete I have a file of the size from 40-50 mb (for a 5 minute video) in 720p HD. the quality is really nice...check out my channel to see some examples.

[MrSmallButBrave]

cool n_n